Science is usually a quest for the truth...

Just a quick post to share what seems to be a well written call for debate and rational thinking in a world that is dominated by spin...

Summer turns to Fall and life is good!

 What a wonderful summer... let's hope we have a nice fall too.

The pizza oven is progressing!

All of the black krim tomatoes are either canned or frozen for yummy sauces to be made this winter!

A little get-away at an old train station right on Lake Superior.  So amazing!

I have lived a good part of my life on the beautiful lake... so fortunate.

The converted train station is now an AIR B&B and you can spend the night here.  The sandstone was quarried in the 1800's.

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Forms done, first course is in!

 Labor Day 2020 

The forms are to set an interior dome height of 18 inches and an oven door opening of 18 inches... and the interior diameter is 36 inches... I seriously thought about going with a Golden Ratio of 29 but the bricks fit better this way!

To cut all of the complex angles we used a miter saw with a diamond blade. This is the first time we've mixed high temp mortar.  It takes a little getting used to.

At this pace, looks like an October "first fire."

The rest should go pretty fast - good thing too - it's September in Northern Wisconsin so cold weather is just around the corner.  As I said in my earlier post, I can't remember a nicer summer.  We raised Black Krim tomatoes this year from seeds.  Soooo good!  If you've never had this heirloom variety you are missing a very pleasant taste treat!

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Rodolfo Ragonesi has a point!

The age of everything fake...

(Human evolution has taken a very strange twist in our times)

I ran across this article and thought it made some good points! Over the past decade or so, the slide from a world view based on facts to agenda driven opinions has accelerated and corroded so many parts of our lives that I wonder if the age of deductive reasoning has been firmly supplanted with "active measures." Most of which are poorly contrived but seem to be effective in, to borrow from Noam Chomsky, manufacturing consent.  Where are the critical thinkers?  How bad does it need to get before there is a cultural renaissance that drives towards truth? 

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